Democrats are hoping to make race a major issue in Sen. Jeff Sessions' attorney general confirmation hearings this week, requesting that members of the Congressional Black Caucus be allowed to testify in his vetting session on Tuesday, Politico reported.

It's likely they'd ask questions about Sessions' past comments about the NAACP — which he allegedly called "un-American."

Jeff Sessions has been known to use the word "boy

They'd also likely ask him about his past statements questioning the need for the Voting Rights Act, a 1965 law enacted to protect African-American voters from being unfairly blocked from the voting booth — a common practice in the once segregated South.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is reportedly OK with having members of the CBC testify, but only after other outside witnesses have testified, an effort Democrats say would bury the members' testimony, according to Politico.